Alcohol, Tobacco Dwarf Illicit Drugs in Human Health Toll
Alcohol and tobacco use shaved more than a quarter of a billion years off our lives collectively in 2015 – and illicit drugs burned tens of millions more, according to a new study.
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Cigarette Makers Must Roll Out New Warnings by June
Cigarette manufacturers must begin posting new warnings starting in June about the dangers of smoking on websites and product packaging, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreFirm Claims It’s Getting Burned By Georgia Tobacco Regs
S&M Brands, a Virginia-based tobacco firm, was the 11th Circuit to revive a lawsuit in which the company claims Georgia’s tobacco regulations are an unconstitutional restraint of trade.
Read moreEU Ban on Smokeless Tobacco Gets Magistrate’s Support
Backing the EU-wide ban on the oral tobacco product snus, a magistrate with the European Court of Justice found Thursday scientific advancements over the years do not require any change.
Read moreMinnesota Says Tobacco Company Is Balking at Payments
Minnesota sued the $7 billion tobacco company that acquired the Kool, Winston, Salem and Maverick brands from the merger of R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard, claiming it is not making multimillion-dollar annual payments required by a settlement agreement.
Read moreSmoking-While-Walking Ban Proposed to NYC Council
Targeting one culprit in the panoply of noxious street odors, a Queens Democrat asked the New York City Council on Thursday to ban smoking while walking.
Read moreSmoking Orangutan Riles Anger Against Zoo in Indonesia
A video of an orangutan smoking has brought more criticism of a zoo in Indonesia infamous for past animal-welfare troubles.
Read moreEU Magistrate Backs Irishman’s Protest of Greek Fine
An Irish court should be allowed to protect one of its citizens from a judgment abroad of which the man did not receive prior notice, a magistrate with Europe’s highest court determined Thursday.
Read moreDutch Prosecutors Reject Calls for Criminal Tobacco Case
Dutch anti-smoking activists vowed to fight on Thursday after prosecutors rejected their call for a criminal investigation into four major tobacco companies on charges including attempted murder or manslaughter, on the grounds that such a case would be unlikely to lead to a conviction.
Read moreTeens Who Vape Likely to Try Cigarettes, Study Finds
Teenagers who have used non-cigarette tobacco products are twice as likely to try conventional cigarettes within a year as those who have not, a new study finds.
Read moreVape Battery Explosion Lawsuits on the Rise
More than 120 lawsuits were filed across the United States in 2017 by plaintiffs claiming they were hurt in explosions and fires caused by e-cigarette batteries.
Read moreGraphic Anti-Smoking Posters May Spur Some Kids to Smoke
New research shows that some teens exposed to graphic anti-smoking posters may actually be encouraged to pick up the habit.
Read moreUN Labor Agency to Stop Taking Funds from Tobacco Industry
The U.N.’s labor agency said Thursday that it will stop taking funding from the tobacco industry and will not extend its public-private partnerships with a business faulted for harmful health effects.
Read moreHealth Groups Can’t Intervene in Fight Over Tobacco Warning Labels
A federal judge ruled Monday that a group of health organizations cannot intervene in a lawsuit filed by tobacco companies against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over a rule expanding warning requirements to cigars and pipe tobacco.
Read moreCourt Approves Tobacco Firms’ ‘Corrective Statements’ on Smoking Risks
Major U.S. cigarette companies will start publishing a series of statements late next month that frankly describe the dangers of smoking.
Read moreSitting for Long Periods Linked to Higher Risk of Death
Adding fuel to the adage “sitting is the new smoking,” a new study finds that sitting for extended periods of time is a significant risk factor for all causes of death.
Read moreGenetic Study Shows Humans Still Evolving
Natural selection actively weeds out unfavorable gene variants linked to heavy smoking and Alzheimer’s disease, according to a large-scale study that reveals humans continue to evolve.
Read moreLaw Firm Must Pay $314K to PR Firm Hired for Discontinued Case
A Mississippi law firm must fork over $314,000 in unpaid monthly retainer fees to a PR company it hired after taking a potential controversial case related to the multi-state tobacco litigation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreCourts Uphold E-Cigarette Rules for Planes & Marketing
WASHINGTON (CN) – Two courts in Washington struck blows to e-cigarette manufacturers on Friday, upholding one federal rule preventing the
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California Counties Use Big Tobacco Lawsuit Tactics to Go After Big Oil
In a legal assault similar to the one that won multibillion-dollar awards from Big Tobacco, two Bay Area counties and a coastal city blamed Chevron, ExxonMobil and three dozen other oil, gas and coal companies for climate change and rising sea levels that threaten communities on the California coast.
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